Newburgh, N.Y. – In the final home meet of the season, the Mount Saint Mary College Men's Swimming team will take on league rival Purchase and the Women's squad will square-off with Purchase and John Jay Saturday afternoon on Senior Day. Events at the Kaplan Center Pool are scheduled to begin at 12:00 p.m.
 
Seniors Honored: Saturday will mark the final home competition for the Knights' four seniors. The Mount will honor Joseph Tagliareni (Hackettstown, N.J.), Tyler Williams (Middlebury, Conn.), Kristen Dwight (Newfield, N.J.) and Emily Gursky (Oakville, Conn.) during  Saturday's meet.
 
MSMC Men At A Glance: Mount Saint Mary enters Saturday's meet with a 2-5 overall record and a 1-2 mark against league rivals following conference defeats to USMMA and Maritime on Wednesday.
 
Tagliareni finished the night with third place points for the Mount in the 200-yard individual medley, 100-yard freestyle and 100-yard breaststroke. Tagliareni touched out in the IM in a time of 2:12.13 before posting marks of 52.44 seconds and 1:15.68 in the freestyle and breaststroke events, respectively.
 
Williams  also turned in a pair of strong swims for the Knights, taking the third position in the 1,000-yard freestyle and the fourth spot in the 500-yard freestyle. His third-place finish came in 11:47.09 before touching out in a time of 6:03.57 in the 500-yard event.
 
Jackson Lerner (Bayside, N.Y.) picked up a pair of fourth place finishes for the Knights, swimming to a time of 24.25 seconds in the 50-yard freestyle and 1:00.99 in the 100-yard butterfly.
 
To close out the evening, the 200-yard freestyle relay team placed fourth with the team of Lerner, Williams, Atticus Salazar (Queens, N.Y.) and Christopher Astacio (Bronx, N.Y.) completing the event in 1:55.35.
 
MSMC Women At A Glance: The Knights split a conference tri-meet on Wednesday at USMMA, topping Maritime and falling to the host Mariners. Following Wednesday's results, the Knights stand at 3-6 overall and 2-3 in conference action.
 
Grace MacHugh (Newburgh, N.Y.), who was named the Skyline Conference Rookie of the Week earlier on Wednesday, cruised to a 1,000-yard victory for the Knights, posting a time of 11:55.65 and winning the event by better than 50 seconds. MacHugh rounded out a strong night for the Mount with a third place showing in the 500-yard freestyle, posting a time of 5:50.56.
 
Kitty Masayda (Watertown, Conn.) also turned in a big meet for the Mount, scoring a runner-up and two third place finishes. Masayda posted a time of 1:16.68 in the 100-yard breaststroke, good for the second position, and took third in both the 200-yard individual medley and 100-yard butterfly in 2:32.12 and 1:08.37, respectively.
 
Stefanie Sommer (Monroe, N.Y.) and Gursky each turned in runner-up finishes for the Mount, with Sommer touching out in 28.06 seconds in the 50-yard freestyle and Gursky showing a time of 1:12.09 in the 100-yard backstroke. Gursky also swam to a fourth-place finish in the 200-yard freestyle for the Knights, showing a time of 2:18.63.
 
Dwight  made her second straight appearance on the one-meter diving board for the Knights on Wednesday and placed fourth with a score of 136.20. In the pool, Dwight scored a third-place finish in the 100-yard freestyle, completing the race in 1:03.91.
 
Mount Saint Mary completed the night with a second-place finish in the 200-yard freestyle relay. The team of Gursky, MacHugh, Dwight and Sommer produced a time of 1:54.00 for the Knights.
 
What's Next: The Knights open the two-day Skyline Conference Championship Meet on Friday, January 28 at Purchase.